Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-21
JEALOUSY AND BUCKsHOT.

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That Ended . Social Family Party.
BooNroN, N. j.. May 19.-Philip Hoebel
q German silk weaver, 80 years old. shot
and instantly killed John Kelly, a labore1
in the Boonton Paper Mills. here last
night. Hoebel's young and comely wife
was the primary cause of the tragedy
Kelly and several other workingmen board
ed with the Hoebel's and when sober Kelly
was quiet and undemonstrative, but wher
in liquor was very violent.
| On several occasions while in this condi
tion he boosted of his admiration for Mrs
Hoebel and swore that some day he would
possess her. Her husband was inclined to
be jealous, although from all accounts she
gave him little or no cause to be 90.
Kelly did not work on Wednesday, but
spent his time at drinking resorts, and by
| night he was much intoxicated. He did
not go to his boarding house until near
midnight. Then Mrs. Hoebel, who had been
talking with her husband and some of the
other boarders, started upstairs with her
child, intending to retire. Kelly followed
her, but the young woman ordered him to
60 back and leave her alone.
He would not do so, but attempted to
embrace her instead. This alarmed her so
much that she fled up the stairs with her
child in her arms, and gaining her room in
safety. locked and bolted the door. Furi-
GUS at being thus rebuffed, Kelly tried to
burst the door open and swore he would
kill the woman when he reached her. Find.
ing he could not break the door down he
dashed into room adjoining Mrs. Hoe
bells, expecting to reach the chamber
through another door from that room.
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and the inmates promptly showed Kelly
out into the hall again and then locked the
door OF their room also. By this time the
uproar had attracted t,e attention of Mr.
Hoebel downstairs. Suspecting what the
trouble was he took double-barrelled
shotgun and ran upstairs wild with ex-
citement. Kelly was again raining kicks on
the door OF Mrs. Hoebels room.
Once only dill Mr.. Hoebel order him to
desist, but Kelly shouted back that he
had right in that room. Whereupon the
husband coelly raised the shotgun to his
shoulder and fred: Kelly dropped with
away. His body fell on the stairway and
rolled down to the bottom, leaving a
CHASTITY trail of blood behind. Hoebel at
once surrendered himself to the Town Mar
shall, James Gilmartin.
He claimed that the shooting was &C.
cidental and that before the weapon had
been discharged he and Kelly had hand
tO-hand encounter for possession of the
gun and that it was fired during the strug-
gle. This statement is not generally be-
lieved. however, although the stock Of the
shotgun is stained with blood and hair as
though heavy blow on the head was
struck with it. The blow could have
been dealt though, after the fatal shot was
fired.
Hoebel used to be foreman of gang of
men on the Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western Railroad. and while laying double
tracks on the Bloomfield & Montcfair
branch few years ago he met and married
his wife, who was then a servant in house
at which he boarded. Since the murder all
sorts OF ruynors about the occurrence and
The causes which led to it have been circu.
ating about the village.
One story is that Kelly and Mrs. Hoebel !
we're sweethearts formerly, and that he |
wanted her to marry him, and she refused |
because of his poverty, and because it was |
ust about that time that she was asked in |
by Mr.. Hoebel. who is quite well |
20 do. |
Another reason is that Kelly, knowing |
jhe jealousy of Mr.. Hoebel, used to tanta- |
ize Mrs. Hoebel in her husbands presence |
or the sake OF annoying him. and that on |
Wednesday night he carried his joking too |
ar and so angered Mr.. Hoebel that he shot |
him down.
County Prosecutor William w. Cutter
las charge of the investigation.